"GENBAND has delivered a cutting-edge solution that has helped us to give business subscribers a more productive communication platform that integrates fixed and mobile communications with other business collaboration tools. The new enhancements to BT iComms include advanced voice and multimedia collaboration services such as unified communications, real-time presence and customized Web portal capabilities that allow our business customers to personalize their service, boost employee productivity and essentially allow the user to choose the best form of communication for every moment.
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GENBAND Difference
The GENBAND C20 is the undisputed leading softswitch in the world. It delivers world-class IP capabilities, reduces power and real estate costs, and creates robust opportunities for new revenue and higher profit. A recent winner of the INTERNET TELEPHONY product of the year award, the C20 has the industry's most complete set of IP communication features and technologies.
The C20 can be deployed to manage communications, perform calls, control IP phones and media gateways, deliver SIP-based multimedia services, host IP-PBXs and function as the centerpiece of an open, standards-based network. The C20 is based on the latest in carrier-grade IP technology and delivers complete PSTN replacement and SIP multimedia applications. It provides advanced voice and multimedia services for business and residential markets in a single platform that meets IMS and IP standards.
Available on the GENBAND GENiUS platform with the GENView web-based manager, the C20 further reduces cost and complexity and accelerates time to market.
Benefits
- Delivers world-class IP-based business, residential and trunking features
- Provides comprehensive country variants
- Reduces power and real estate requirements while ensuring high availability and survivability
- Incorporates robust, open standards-based protocol support
- Enables carrier-managed VoIP VPN, FMC and interoperability with third party line and trunk gateways
- Delivers lower transmission costs, optimized management and legacy reuse
- Leads in PSTN network transformation
- Delivers application server, Media Gateway Control, Access Gateway Control and Media Resources functions to your IMS network
Overview
Converged and Multimedia Applications: A platform for convergence success, the C20 IP Softswitch delivers a full suite of network configurations including International Gateway, National Long Distance, Class 5 residential and business features, Class 5 Cable (NCS), SIP Class 5 and Multimedia capabilities -- all on a single platform. The C20 also supports multiple access types including Wireline, Cable, Broadband Access and Wireless Broadband.
New Revenue Opportunities: The C20 is built for service profitability. The versatile C20 allows service providers to deliver a comprehensive set of field-proven VoIP services to growing markets around the world. Service providers can leverage the GENBAND C20 to tailor customized portfolio offerings to specific end-user segments, including Unified Communications, IP Business and Consumer Voice and Multimedia.
Unified Communications: The C20 offers a single, seamless user interface to enterprise communications while simplifying voice, voicemail, e-mail, instant messaging and collaboration applications. In addition to our award winning UC services supported directly from the softswitch, GENBAND’s C20 SIP services are fully integrated into Microsoft Lync, OCS and HMC solutions.
IP Business Services: The C20 provides cost-effective VoIP services for large, medium and small businesses. Mobile workers can access 300+ voice services through an enterprise LAN or the Internet. Services can include basic Centrex voice, enhanced PABX functionality, advanced multimedia, FMC and full contact and call center support.
Consumer Voice and Multimedia: The C20 supports a full range of voice and multimedia services, to enrich the home user's communications experience. This allows both new and existing service providers to pursue new revenue opportunities while meeting regulatory requirements. Feature-rich, IP-enabled multimedia capabilities include FMC. With MSANS via H.248 and TISPANs latest draft of SIP MSANs protocol, carriers can easily expand their subscriber base and perform Class 5 consolidation.
Flexible Market Options: The C20 delivers the flexibility needed in today's telecom environment and provides legacy DMS customers with a cost-effective migration path to VoIP. The C20 can also provide a high-performance, small-footprint, future-proof VoIP solution for non-DMS customers or those who do not want to leverage their DMS line bays.
The C20 enables service providers to introduce SIP voice and multimedia features to geographically dispersed markets. It provides the scalability needed to grow a subscriber base in a flexible, targeted way – including small-pocket service areas – while minimizing backhaul costs. The system accommodates existing OSS infrastructures, and offers a comprehensive set of country variants.
Advanced Technologies and Standards: The GENBAND C20 works with open, standards-based protocols and delivers a flexible set of access and trunk media gateway options and a combined Session Border Controller and IP-to-IP Media Gateway. This flexible approach allows service providers to grow easily, to take full advantage of new innovations, and to accelerate time-to-revenue efforts.
Softswitch Intelligence: Two high-availability call agent processors provide least cost routing, emergency call handling, Local Number Portability, translations, centralized service delivery and other call control capabilities.
Signaling Interface: The C20 can be provisioned with processors providing an SS7 signaling interface for seamless interworking between circuit-switched and packet-based networks and to support advanced telephony and intelligent networking services.
Packetized Audio: An integrated Media Server provides comprehensive packet-based audio features, including announcements, lawful intercepts and end-user recording and customization.
Media Gateway Support: Open, standards-based protocols provide interfaces to the public telephone network, allowing the C20 to be seamlessly integrated with trunk gateways for all population densities.
IP Application Server: The C20’s integrated A2 provides SIP voice lines, video conferencing, collaboration, presence, instant messaging, meet-me conferencing and the personal agent, a web portal for end-user customization and other capabilities.
Carrier Grade Operation: The C20 platforms are available in a Geographical Survivability configuration, providing Softswitch and SIP Application Server node diversity for enhanced reliability.
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Reviews
- Jacinto Cavestany, Vice-President of BT Iberia and Latin America
"We are confident that the scale, flexibility and simplified network architecture enabled by the GENBAND GENiUS platform will significantly reduce Hondutel’s total cost of ownership.”
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- Juan Nelson, Founder of Laticom
"Leaders are high-viability vendors with a broad portfolio, significant market share, broad geographic coverage, a clear vision for how CSPs' needs will evolve, and a proven track record of delivering products. Their product portfolios are well-positioned and they are likely to continue to deliver leading products. Leaders do not necessarily offer the best solution for every customer requirement, however, and not all their products may be best of breed. Overall, though, they provide solutions that offer relatively low risk and high quality.
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- Gartner Softswitch Report
Industry Analysts
2011 Gartner Softswitch Report